Approve a customer

Approves a customer for bidding.

Approval is only enforced when the shop's Auction participants setting is set to Invited customers, which restricts bidding to pre-approved customers.

post

Authorizations

AuthorizationstringRequired

You can retrieve your token by visiting Settings > API and clicking Generate Public Token.

Path parameters

idstringRequired

The customer ID.

Example: 1c6af60by54hzdmgxy5ab4ypw0

Query parameters

fields[customers]stringOptional

Available values are name, firstName, lastName, externalId, email, registeredAt, approvedAt, bannedAt, createdAt. You can include multiple values by separating them with a comma.

Responses

200

CustomerResource

application/vnd.api+json

401

Unauthenticated

application/vnd.api+json

422

Validation error

application/vnd.api+json

post/customers/{id}/approve

POST /v1/customers/{id}/approve HTTP/1.1
Host: api.auctionplusapp.com
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_SECRET_TOKEN
Accept: */*

{
  "data": {
    "id": "2jd4kywr4526zefvd26qjnpsbm",
    "type": "customers",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "Garnett Harvey",
      "firstName": "Garnett",
      "lastName": "Harvey",
      "externalId": "4235075445",
      "email": "[e-mail]",
      "registeredAt": "2026-09-17T19:51:43.000000Z",
      "approvedAt": "2026-09-17T19:51:43.000000Z",
      "bannedAt": null,
      "createdAt": "2026-09-24T19:51:43.000000Z"
    }
  }
}